Your favourite way to eat pasta

[Pastamasta]

If I'm out I love a well made lasagne. At home, for a quick and easy dinner, I love making a sauce with Boursin cheese and having it with penne, mixed with chicken and doused in doused in lemon. Anything creamy and garlicky is a winner.

And sometimes you just can't beat a good plate of (very cheesy) macaroni cheese with garlic bread. I'm not sure if that last one is a British thing or a Scottish concoction. Up here macaroni cheese always comes with garlic bread.

What's your favourite way to have pasta? Answers in more detail than "by the tonne weight" please.

Aw @Caswallonthefox I'm just being daft. No worries. Enjoy your chicken nuggets.

I've been known to have pasta with butter and haggis through it 😳 so I'm not one to talk about marmite or chicken nuggets.

Give some of the ideas on here a try, a lot of them are very quick and easy.

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Cook penne whilst you fry diced chorizo. Beat 1 egg per two people with grated cheese, drain pasta, stir through chorizo and oil it was fried in, stir through cheese/egg mix, serve

So broadly, carbonara, but with chorizo for extra flavour!

Leeks cooked slowly, sausage meat, white wine and mascarpone

I also used to love the sacla aubergine pesto, with bacon and mushrooms but they have completely changed it. Still nice but less kicky.

Oh lemony linguine with scallops, prawns, whatever, a bit of chilli and cherry tomatoes.

Or ham, thinly slices courgettes fried with garlic and a bit of green pesto.

A proper carbonara (very rarely make this).

Never really have chicken with pasta. Don't know why!

Boiled onion and mushrooms? The combination of flavours sounds nice but honestly, if you fry off the onions and mushrooms and then add them (with the cooking juices) to the drained pasta and corn it will be much tastier. Living the huge amounts of cheese though 😁

Linguini with courgette, mint, lemon and parmesan
Lasagne
Cannelloni

Tomato ketchup???!
Chopped up fishfingers???!
Boiled mushrooms with sweetcorn???!

There are some erm….interesting…ideas on here!

A really good veggie lasagne - I use puy lentils as the ‘meat’ and lots of red wine

I’ve recently discovered Mutti brand tomatoes and am having fun with a whole new world of tomato based sauces, which I previously wouldn’t eat:
penne a la vodka is a recent discovery, as is a veggie puttanesca

Spaghetti vongole is my absolute favourite (eating out) with crab linguine a close second

At home: fry lardons, remove, fry courgette strips on high till soft inside and very well browned, add back lardons and pour in double cream, mix together and reduce a little. Mix in cooked pasta. Eat. Don’t be tempted to add parmesan or garlic etc, it doesn’t need it. I am not a courgette fan except like this.

We also do the creamy mushroom pasta as described above (works best with egg pasta) and the roast tomato feta pasta (needs a tiny bit of honey added).

Sacrilege alert : I don’t like chicken with pasta.

Boiled mushrooms with sweetcorn???!

What about the boiled onion??

Coquilettes. Drain. Bit of cooking water, blue cheese and cheddar or emmental. Stir over heat until combined, add back the coquilettes. Eat. Yum.

Orzo cooked with a chicken stock pot. Add nduja and cream cheese once it's done, I sometimes roast baby plum tomatoes to go with it but not essential. Totally delicious.

I don't make much pasta at home but

Lasagne - I like the time to make it, a good podcast and preferably a rainy day, freeze it all in portions and thank myself when I'm feeling lazy!
Carbonara - I never make it and no idea why as I love it. Do a v lazy one of pancetta, stir in creme fraiche and a shit ton of Parmesan and add pasta
Random pasta bakes - all the bits of veg in the fridge, scraps of bacon or other meats, pesto, mozzarella, bake it

Penne with a very spicy and garlicky all'arrabiata made with not too sweet peppers. Or spaghetti puttanesca.

With melted Philadelphia , smoked salmon and peas. Grated parmesan over the top. My favourite unbeatable quick dinner.

Don't judge me, I love the burnt bits
Ragu with added Parmesan rind cooked for a few hours
Béchamel with nutmeg
Layered with mozzarella and Parmesan and fresh lasagne sheets

Love seafood linguine
All time fave is butter, grated cheese and Heinz tomato sauce
Close 2nd is spag bol

We eat a lot of pasta. Our favourites are:

• spaghetti carbonara (traditional or with untraditional additions such as peas or sliced courgettes)

• any shape of pasta with straight-up pomodoro sauce. My longtime favourite recipe is Andrew Carmellini's basic tomato sauce. For a twist of creaminess and protein, you can add some puréed chickpeas which is just divine.

• spaghetti puttanesca

• linguini with hot smoked salmon, cavolo nero, spring onions, crème fraiche and lemon.

Have you got a recipe?

My go-to for a quick midweek meal is to fry off some mushrooms and onions, add double cream, crumble in Stilton, add cracked black pepper and stir until melted. I serve it with whatever pasta I have in, usually Fusilli.

Love a good spaghetti bol and lasagne. Also homemade carbonara from scratch with the addition of mushrooms and bacon lardons.

I make a mean lasagna. None of this weird bechamel stuff - it's pasta, sauce and loads of cheese and salami!
I quite like pumpkin ravioli with a pesto or light sauce.

I do a recipe I found in a magazine which is Parma ham cooked until crispy, then remove from the pan and put sliced leeks and chopped garlic in. Cook that down low and slow, and put your pasta on. As the pasta’s almost done, return the ham to the pan with cream and Parmesan. Drain and add the pasta (and a bit of pasta water if it’s stodgy), bang on a load of black pepper, more Parmesan, serve - delicious.

I also do a “spring lasagne” which uses green pesto and spinach, asparagus, and peppers instead of the tomato/meat layer, but still with bechamel and loads of cheese. It’s really tasty and lighter/fresher than a traditional lasagne. I struggle with tomatoes because of acid reflux (thanks peri meno) so we had to mix up our pasta game a bit.

I’m coming back to this thread when I have more time.

My favourite is slow fried onions so they are sweet, with slow fried thinly sliced mushrooms, and long thin strips of courgette also slow fried. Then add some shredded Parma ham, and then when the ham is cooked add crème fraiche. Best with those pasta bows so all the sauce collects in the middle bits. Yum!!

This thread! It's too late to eat pasta now but, oh my, I would if I could.

My favourite is homemade, slow cooked lasagne. My dad made it when we were kids and, nearly 50 years on, my kids love grandads special too.

Another one I love is a roasted butternut squash and Roquefort tagliatelle. I think I might have based it on a Nigella recipe, but can't really remember.

But basically as long as there is garlic, cream and / or cheese, I'm happy.

Like it sometimes and super simple. Linguine with a fresh tomato sauce with parsley and bit of chilli.

OR lasagna. I do one with short rib beef meat or tiny meatballs (half pork/beef) with tomato sauce. Or just tomato sauce. Occasionally add small bits of chopped boiled egg to the layers to make it lighter. Never bechamel.

Lots of homemade chunky tomato sauce with chickpeas or lentils and a splash of balsamic! Or vinaigrette-based pasta salad with sundried tomatoes and other veg. I don't usually have cream or cheese, if I do it's feta or leeks and goat cheese. Yum now I'm hungry.

Porcini pasta - put some dried porcini in some milk and heat then leave to steep. Strain and chop and reserve the shrooms, use the milk to make bechamel then add the mushrooms back in with cooked pappardelle. I usually do it as a pasta bake, bung in oven with breadcrumbs and parmesan over the top.

These all look amazing but I'm going to add spaghetti with a small amount of butter and ketchup mixed in then loads of sharp cheddar on top..